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What UUIDs can do for you

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 212.214.78.162] on September 13, 2008 08:16 AM

This is really helpful if you, like me, have lots of USB-devices. Before I'd use semothing like:

dmesg | tail
mount /dev/sdxn /mnt/xxx -t xx -o xxx

Now I simply use:
mount /mnt/external, mount /mnt/ipod, mount /mnt/xdcard... and so on.

I don't use it on my root and swap devices, though. As people have said earlier, that can lead to problems.

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